(2 Feb 2023) A new issue of the SEALG Newsletter (December 2022) has been published and is now available online. Included in the Newsletter is the report of our group’s Annual Meeting that took place in Paris on 1 July 2022, in collaboration with the 12th EuroSEAS Conference. In addition to this detailed report by…
(13 Jan 2023) R. David Lankes, the Virginia & Charles Bowden Professor of Librarianship at the iSchool at University of Texas at Austin, shares his observation of visiting local libraries in South Korea. “…As part of my trip to Korea, I had the pleasure of visiting a host of innovative community libraries there. And…
(27 Jan 2023) Authors, illustrators, and editors will be compensated for e-book and audiobook library borrowings for the first time, in a move by the federal government to bring lenders’ rights into the 21st century. A $12.9 million expansion of the annual lending rights scheme over four years will be announced at Monday’s launch of…
(29 Jan 2023) The national archive will not have enough space to store vital records even after its new $290 million building is ready in Wellington. The construction project is also making current storage pressures worse. There was also not enough room for digital records either. “At present, we do not have the capacity nor resource to…
(2 Jan 2023) It was a night during the reign of King Ang Duong, who ruled Cambodia from 1840 to 1860. In a Kodi or monk’s house in Wat Svay Chrum, a Buddhist monastery in Prey Veng, a young man, who wished to become a district judge, was studying a Sastra or text on the kingdom’s…
By Gina de Alwis Jayasuriya* (11 Jan 2023) In January 2019, I initiated a study on Continuing Professional Development (CPD)opportunities available to Library & Information Science (LIS) professionals in selected Asian countries. The focus was on countries that had conducted limited research on the LIS sector, and specifically, on CPD for LIS professionals. Country…
(3 Jan 2023) The three-day Indian Library Congress (ILC), which concluded in Kannur on Tuesday, decided to work towards establishing libraries across the country. Organising committee chairman V. Sivadasan, MP, presented the resolution that said that free access to a deliberative public space was a fundamental human right. He urged the authorities to increase public…
(21 Dec 2022) Federal funding for the National Library of Australia’s digital resource, Trove, runs out in six months and without additional government support the popular archive could cease operations from next July. The beloved platform receives more than 22 million visits each year and has been caught in the same financial crunch impacting the National…
(6 Dec 2022) An outdoor library that was operated in Seoul Plaza in front of City Hall in Seoul between April and November was visited by more than 210,000 people, the Seoul Metropolitan Government said Monday. During the seven months, a total of 211,000 people, or 4,900 people each day, visited the outdoor library. Only 67…
(2 Dec 2022) Several book collections from Malacañan’s Presidential Museum and Library can now be accessed at the National Library of the Philippines (NLP) building in Ermita, Manila. This, after First Lady Louise “Liza” Araneta-Marcos led the launching of the Presidential Library at the second floor mezzanine of the NLP building. Find out more…